Gradually Quotes
699 quotes by 567 authors
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As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements…
— Rene Descartes
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One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next…
— William Golding
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The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir…
— Sam Keen
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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
— Jane Austen
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The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls…
— John Quincy Adams
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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood…
— John Steinbeck
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I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter
— Kenzo Tange
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When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red atrocities, I merely…
— Stephen Spender
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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
— Ramakrishna
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Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker…
— Hannah More
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At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my…
— Sergei Prokofiev
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If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.
— Charles Koch
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Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses,…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find…
— R C Sproul
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When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan…
— Jeff Raikes
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It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is…
— Kurt Weill
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This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did…
— Michael Behe
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